388 TETRAONID.E. 



The plumage did not exhibit the slightest indication that 

 the bird had been in confinement ; it was a female, and 

 the eggs inside were as large as sloes. I received this in- 

 formation from Mr. Robert Widdowson, of Melton Mow- 

 bray, who then possessed the specimen, and who sent me 

 up a coloured drawing, taken from the bird, by which the 

 species was immediately recognised. Two or three years 

 ago, a bird of this same species was shot by a nobleman 

 when sporting on the estate of the Marquis of Hertford, at 

 Sudbourn, in Suffolk, where it was considered that a few 

 of the eggs of the Barbary Partridge had been introduced 

 with a much larger quantity of those of the more common 

 red-legged birds, at the time the country about Sudbourn 

 and Wickham Market was stocked by means of eggs ob- 

 tained from the continent by the Marquis of Hertford and 

 Lord Rendlesham, about 1 770, as mentioned in the history 

 of the species last described. 



This specimen of the Barbary Partridge has now passed 

 into the possession of Mr. Thomas Goatley, of Chipping 

 Norton, Oxfordshire ; who has most kindly lent me the 

 preserved bird for my use in this work, and the figure here 

 given was drawn from this British killed Barbary Par- 

 tridge. As a species it is immediately distinguished from 

 the more common Red-legged Partridge, which precedes it 

 in this work, by the chestnut collar surrounding the neck, 

 which is studded with small round white spots, and is 

 much broader, and therefore more conspicuous in the male 

 than in this example, which is a female. 



The Barbary Partridge is found in Africa as far south 

 as Senegal, extending its range northward over Morocco 

 and Barbary, and from thence eastward to Algeria, where 

 it is said by M. Malherbe to be very common. It is the 

 Rock Partridge and Gambia Partridge of Buffon. 



